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California Perestroika
California Perestroika
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California
In his latest Forbes column, Joel Kotkin takes a journey into the great progressive paradise on the West Coast:
Three predominantly White interest groups: the “greens,” public sector employee unions, and the Silicon Valley technology wonks, with the exploding non-White underclass playing supporting roles as bloc voting groups.
California is the land of tax increases, the DREAM Act for illegal aliens, Kony 2012, tuition increases and higher education budget cuts, crumbling roads, deteriorating schools, budget deficits, Victor Davis Hanson’s Vandalized Valley, the highest concentration of TANF welfare recipients in America, the states where criminals are being let out of prison, and where state lawmakers spend their time on pressing issues like banning foie gras.
The “greens” are opposed to offshore drilling, fracking, natural gas, hydroelectric, the coal industry, petroleum, nuclear, and now it seems, even solar and high speed rail due to the environmental impact on – what’s the name of that minnow, it looks like every other minnow used for fish bait - the Delta smelt.
The corrupt, failing political edifice?
California is the flagship of the great “progressive” model that ex-Californians have brought in their U-hauls to Nevada, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, which they are trying to impose on the entire country through the Democratic Party, Congress, and the Electoral College.
The day is coming when California will become America’s combined version of Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal – the Golden State will come to Congress asking for a federal bailout, and every other state will have to decide whether to keep bailing it out in perpetuity because it will be labeled “Too Big To Fail.”
Are we going to bailout California? Are we willing to allow a bankrupt California to select our national political leaders? Are we willing to take in all the ex-Californians as they swamp our states while bringing their “progressive” politics with them?
Why not dissolve the Union? Let them sink into the “progressive” black hole they have created? It is long past time to have a national conversation about disunion.
Posted on June 13, 2012 by Hunter Wallace
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/201...a-perestroika/
http://www.occidentaldissent.com/for...=5171#post5171
http://stumbleinn.net/forum/showthre...939#post345939
http://previousdissent.com/forums/sh...6763#post26763
http://whitenationalist.org/forum/sh...=6043#post6043
California
In his latest Forbes column, Joel Kotkin takes a journey into the great progressive paradise on the West Coast:
“California’s “progressive” approach has been enshrined in what is essentially a one-party state that is almost Soviet in its rigidity and inability to adapt to changing conditions. With conservatives, most businesses and taxpayer advocates marginalized, California politics has become the plaything of three powerful interest groups: public-sector unions, the Bay Area/Silicon Valley elite and the greens. Their agendas, largely unrestrained by serious opposition, have brought this great state to its knees.
California’s ruling troika has been melded by a combination of self-interest and a common ideology. Their ruling tenets center on support for an ever more intrusive, and expensive, state apparatus; the need to turn California into an Ecotopian green state; and a shared belief that the “genius” of Silicon Valley can pay for all of this.
Now this world view is foundering on the rocks of economic reality. The Soviet Union armed itself to the teeth and sent cosmonauts into space while the public waited on line for toothpaste and sausages. Similarly, Californians suffer from a combination of high taxes and intrusive regulation coupled with a miserable education system —the state’s students now rank 47 th in science achievement —and a rapidly deteriorating infrastructure.”
.California’s ruling troika has been melded by a combination of self-interest and a common ideology. Their ruling tenets center on support for an ever more intrusive, and expensive, state apparatus; the need to turn California into an Ecotopian green state; and a shared belief that the “genius” of Silicon Valley can pay for all of this.
Now this world view is foundering on the rocks of economic reality. The Soviet Union armed itself to the teeth and sent cosmonauts into space while the public waited on line for toothpaste and sausages. Similarly, Californians suffer from a combination of high taxes and intrusive regulation coupled with a miserable education system —the state’s students now rank 47 th in science achievement —and a rapidly deteriorating infrastructure.”
Three predominantly White interest groups: the “greens,” public sector employee unions, and the Silicon Valley technology wonks, with the exploding non-White underclass playing supporting roles as bloc voting groups.
California is the land of tax increases, the DREAM Act for illegal aliens, Kony 2012, tuition increases and higher education budget cuts, crumbling roads, deteriorating schools, budget deficits, Victor Davis Hanson’s Vandalized Valley, the highest concentration of TANF welfare recipients in America, the states where criminals are being let out of prison, and where state lawmakers spend their time on pressing issues like banning foie gras.
“Once unassailable politically, the environmental community is fracturing between those thoroughly allied to rent-seeking capitalists and the Democratic Party and those still primarily concerned with preserving nature. The Sierra Club, for example, objects to Brown’s attempt to exempt the high-speed line from environmental review. Some Greens also object to Brown-supported projects like the massive tortoise-roasting solar farm planned for the Mojave Desert.
Both Brown and the Greens also have failed to deliver many of the much ballyhooed “green jobs” that they insisted their policies would produce. Instead they may soon have to confront an electorate increasingly skeptical about green fantasies and more concerned with a persistently under-performing economy.”
.Both Brown and the Greens also have failed to deliver many of the much ballyhooed “green jobs” that they insisted their policies would produce. Instead they may soon have to confront an electorate increasingly skeptical about green fantasies and more concerned with a persistently under-performing economy.”
The “greens” are opposed to offshore drilling, fracking, natural gas, hydroelectric, the coal industry, petroleum, nuclear, and now it seems, even solar and high speed rail due to the environmental impact on – what’s the name of that minnow, it looks like every other minnow used for fish bait - the Delta smelt.
“Yet it’s clearly good news that ,for the first time in a decade, there’s hope that the whole corrupt, failing California political edifice could come crashing down, providing a renewed hope for recovering the state’s former greatness.”
.The corrupt, failing political edifice?
California is the flagship of the great “progressive” model that ex-Californians have brought in their U-hauls to Nevada, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, which they are trying to impose on the entire country through the Democratic Party, Congress, and the Electoral College.
The day is coming when California will become America’s combined version of Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal – the Golden State will come to Congress asking for a federal bailout, and every other state will have to decide whether to keep bailing it out in perpetuity because it will be labeled “Too Big To Fail.”
Are we going to bailout California? Are we willing to allow a bankrupt California to select our national political leaders? Are we willing to take in all the ex-Californians as they swamp our states while bringing their “progressive” politics with them?
Why not dissolve the Union? Let them sink into the “progressive” black hole they have created? It is long past time to have a national conversation about disunion.
Posted on June 13, 2012 by Hunter Wallace
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